Re: [BUG] Agenda not sorting by priority THEN todo state (todo state ignored) [9.6.1 (9.6.1-??-fe92a3c @ /Users/polofsson/.emacs.d/.local/straight/build-28.2/org/)]

[Samuel Wales]

perhaps we could have 2 names: one for the priority cookie setting and
one for whatever the agenda does.


On 3/22/23, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
> Jonas Olofsson <jonas.olofsson@apple.com> writes:
>
>> I am trying to sort my agenda by a number of variables, but it seems
>> that todo-state-down is not applied if added after priority-down.
>> Instead it seems as if Priority first is applied, then the date the
>> item is scheduled.
>>
>> Repro:
>> 1. Set
>>    org-agenda-sorting-strategy
>>    '((agenda priority-down todo-state-down)
>>      (todo priority-down todo-state-down effort-up category-keep
>> scheduled-up)
>>      (tags priority-down todo-state-down effort-up category-keep)
>>      (search category-keep))
>> 2. Set
>>    org-todo-keywords '(
>>                        (sequence "TODO(t!)" "NEXT(n!)" "WAIT(w!)" "|"
>> "DONE(d!)" "CANC(c!)" "DUPE(D!)")
>>                        )
>> 3. Have three todos scheduled:
>>
>> * TODO [#C] Test
>> SCHEDULED: <2023-03-16 Thu>
>> * NEXT [#C] Test
>> SCHEDULED: <2023-03-15 Wed>
>> * WAIT [#C] Test
>> SCHEDULED: <2023-03-17 Fri>
>>
>> 4. Go to agenda.
>>
>> I expect to see items in the following order, since they are the same
>> priority.
>> WAIT C Test
>> NEXT C Test
>> TODO C Test
>>
>> But I see:
>> NEXT C Test
>> TODO C Test
>> WAIT C Test
>
> Confirmed.
>
> Yet another agenda madness I have no clue about.
>
> `org-agenda-get-scheduled' sets the priority as
>
> 'priority (if habitp (org-habit-get-priority habitp)
>                             (+ 99 diff (org-get-priority item)))
>
> where diff is the number of overdue days for a given entry.
>
> Further,
>
> `org-agenda-get-deadlines' has
>
>                 'priority
>                 ;; Adjust priority to today reminders about deadlines.
>                 ;; Overdue deadlines get the highest priority
>                 ;; increase, then imminent deadlines and eventually
>                 ;; more distant deadlines.
>                 (let ((adjust (if today? (- diff) 0)))
>                   (+ adjust (org-get-priority item)))
>
> `org-agenda-get-todos' has
>
>             priority (1+ (org-get-priority txt)))
>
> All these dates back to the initial Org release.
>
> From what I am seeing, these awkward priority adjustments are hard-coded
> for fine-tune agenda sorting in some (unknown) scenarios.
>
> Changing them will likely break existing sorting.
>
> To fix this, we should carefully check what will happen if we set the
> agenda priority to be the actual user-defined priority. And then fix the
> sorting back somehow.
>
> --
> Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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